Sentence examples for overwhelming fire from inspiring English sources

The collision of a large plane into any occupied building would undoubtedly create many casualties, an overwhelming fire and tremendous property damage regardless of the building's design.

Viewing fortresses as nothing more than immense permanent batteries designed to pour overwhelming fire on attacking armies, Montalembert simplified the intricate geometric designs of Vauban and relied on simple polygonal structures, often with detached peripheral forts instead of projecting bastions.

STEVE GILLMOR: So, your concern about the overwhelming fire hose aspect of this that is just difficult to scale up to that kind of —.

The Essex did not survive her triumph, succumbing to the overwhelming fire of His Majesty's Ships Phoebe and Cherub in neutral waters near Valparaiso in 1814, but American commercial interests in the Pacific region were relatively safe for a time.

The assault on western Mosul has, thus far, been largely as expected - a much better equipped and better trained Iraqi army than the one humiliated by IS in 2014, methodically pushing towards the edge of the city thanks to overwhelming fire power and the cover of coalition air strikes.

Whatever the reason, they come back undaunted to the same firing-points, despite our overwhelming fire power.

In 1586, Ernst's allies had secured Vest Recklinghausen, even though they had failed to catch the elusive Schenck, and they had reduced Neuss to a pile of rubble, proving their overwhelming fire-power.

But in many ways, interviews suggest, his emergence as a dominant figure within the News Corporation is consistent with a biography that combines high-minded legal and social aims — antitrust law and education — with a driving, sometimes overwhelming competitive fire.

This development made it impossible for Scheer to retreat, for doing so would have sacrificed the slower pre-dreadnought battleships of the II Battle Squadron, while using his dreadnoughts and battlecruisers to cover their retreat would have subjected his strongest ships to overwhelming British fire.

Artillery support was poor, and a pause in mortar fire ordered by American commanders in helicopters overhead allowed the Viet Cong to regroup for a final overwhelming attack.

Their response with overwhelming force — including missile-firing helicopters — was in character with the brutal 10-year war Algeria waged against Islamist insurgents in the 1990s, when tens of thousands of people died.